15:53
Historian Spots Lost King Henry VIII Portrait in Background of Social Media Photo
A sharp-eyed historian uncovered a long-lost portrait of King Henry VII in the background of a photo posted on social media. [Read More]
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A Heated Debate Over Real vs. AI-Generated Images in the News
We have written plenty about AI-generated images, and today, we are going to illustrate why we have had a problem since its announcement. On October 30, Spain was hit by an unprecedented flood, which killed over 200 people, reported TIME.
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Photographer Pete Souza Deletes X Account After Controversial Trump Post
Photographer Pete Souza, best known for his role as chief official White House photographer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, has deleted his X account (formerly Twitter) after making controversial remarks concerning a photo of former President and current Republican nominee, Donald Trump. [Read More]
18:17
Instagram’s Threads is Testing an In-App Camera
Threads has started to test out one of its "most requested" features: an in-app camera.
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00:46
Twitter Expands Crowdsourced Fact-Checking Following Phony Viral Photo
About a week after an artificial intelligence (AI) generated image of an explosion outside the Pentagon went viral on Twitter, the social media giant is using its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, to fight back against fake or misleading images. [Read More]
20:54
Leaked Image Shows What Instagram’s New Twitter Competitor Looks Like
Meta was rumored to be working on a standalone Twitter competitor, and a new leak shows not only what it might look like, but also how it would pair and sync with Instagram and other apps. [Read More]
20:55
Instagram’s Twitter Competitor ‘Notes’ Rolls Out to All Users
Less than a week after the reports indicated that Meta was investigating making a Twitter competitor, Instagram is rolling out that feature, called Notes, to all users. [Read More]
18:41
Instagram May Add Microblogging Feature in a Bid to Replace Twitter
After a year of chasing TikTok's domination in short-form video, Meta is now reportedly considering building its own version of Twitter within its photo-sharing app, Instagram. [Read More]
21:36
Instagram Will Test a ‘Repost’ Feature
Instagram will be testing a "repost" feature that would allow users to share other people's posts in their own feeds.
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21:44
Kim Kardashian’s Daughter Asks Photographers to ‘Stop’ Taking Her Photo
A video of Kim Kardashian's eldest daughter, North West, holding up a handwritten sign telling photographers to "stop" taking photos of her at Paris Fashion Week has led to a fierce debate about paparazzi filming celebrity children. [Read More]
21:03
Supreme Court Blocks Texas Social Media Moderation Ban
A Texas law that would have banned social media giants from regulating certain forms of online speech has been blocked by the United States Supreme Court. [Read More]
21:06
You Can Now Publish Content Directly Out of Creative Cloud Express
Adobe has launched the Content Scheduler as part of its Creative Cloud Express platform, a move it says is in response to requests for a unified way to allow creatives to plan, create, and publish content across social media. [Read More]
23:03
Elon Musk Buys Twitter for $44 Billion
Twitter has agreed to terms with billionaire Elon Musk. With a tender offer of $54.20 per share, the man who controls both Tesla and SpaceX will purchased the social media platform for $44 billion with the intent to take it private. [Read More]
22:13
Sony Has Joined the Standards Body Dedicated to Content Authenticity
Sony has joined the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) as its latest steering committee member. The C2PA is an open, technical standards body addressing the prevalence of misleading information online. [Read More]
17:36
Mom Asked Parents To Post Honest And Unstaged Pictures Of Their Rooms, 33 People Deliver
When you have kids, the orderly fashion of your home can potentially get reorganized by them very quickly. This story is all about that, click it for more info! The post Mom Asked Parents To Post Honest And Unstaged Pictures Of Their Rooms, 33 People Deliver first appeared on Bored Panda.
20:00
The Search for Authentic Communication in the Photography Community
Society has evolved a lot over the last two decades. It seems common sense and thoughtful dialogue are slowly fading away. Instead, we're getting deeper into a world of extremes; we're either extremely nice or extremely rude.
22:38
SpaceX Astronaut Captures Stellar Photo of Earth, Shot on iPhone
The first few images released by the SpaceX team were shot with a Nikon DSLR, but the images shared in the most recent drop by mission commander Jared Isaacman were captured using an iPhone 12. The crew of SpaceX’s Inspiration4 has started sharing some images and videos captured from space during the company’s world’s first […]
23:40
Breathtaking Photos of Earth Were Taken From Even Higher Than the ISS
NASA astronauts regularly share beautiful images of Earth captured from space. However, a recent batch of photos captured from an even higher orbit than the International Space Station (ISS) provides an even more astonishing view of planet Earth.
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Nikon to Launch First Ever Camera with GNSS Instead of GPS
Nikon looks set to launch what is likely the first consumer camera to use GNSS instead of GPS. It would be a major upgrade in how geolocation coordinates are obtained for the metadata of photos. The mention of GNSS was first spotted by Nokishita and reported by Nikon Rumors in a government registration filing for […]
17:36
Not Disclosing That a Photo Was Retouched is Now Illegal in Norway
Norway has recently passed legislation that makes it illegal for photos that feature any kind of retouching without disclosing the edits posted by celebrities and influencers as part of a pushback against unrealistic beauty standards and a rise in body dysmorphic disorder.
18:49
Twitter Axing AI Photo Cropping After Tests Reveal Race/Gender Bias
Twitter recently announced full-size images in mobile feeds, much to the delight of photographers. The company has now revealed that one of the reasons for the change is that internal tests revealed race and gender biases in its AI photo-cropping system.
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Twitter Joins Coalition of Media/Tech Companies Combating Fake News
Twitter is the latest tech and media giant to join The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), which focuses on combating misleading and fraudulent online content. In late 2019, Adobe-led collaboration with The New York Times Company and Twitter helped establish the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), which aims to address online content authenticity through […]
19:43
Twitter’s Birdwatch Will Let the Public Fact-Check Fake Photos
Twitter has launched a new program called Birdwatch that puts the power to fight misinformation in the hands of the public. The goal is to have crowdsourced fact-checking that can help identify fake or misleading Tweet content, including photos.
22:03
Oprah Spots Struggling Photographer’s Tweet, Offers Him a Job
A struggling photographer recently published a Tweet in a last-ditch effort to find some work, and the Hail Mary paid off in a big way: Oprah Winfrey saw it and Tweeted him a job offer. The Coronavirus Pandemic has had a major impact on photographers, many of whom have found it incredibly difficult to find […]
23:17
Forensic Experts Used Photos and Videos From Social Media to Reconstruct Beirut Explosion
On August 4, an explostion rocked the city of Beirut, killing over 200 and injuring more than 6,500. In order to reconstruct exactly what happened, forensics researchers were able to piece together the event using photos and videos uploaded to social media.
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Maine Resident Has Photographed Nearly Every Local Sunrise For Seven Years
In what has been the feel-good story of the day, Maine photographer Rick Barber was recently featured on his local news for his efforts to photograph and share the sunrise from his home of Ogunquit for the past seven years.
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This Journalist Shared Behind-The-Scenes Videos Of How Military Jet Fighters Are Photographed
Saudi journalist Enad-al-Otaibi posted on his Twitter a very unique glimpse into how exciting photography can actually be—specifically, it's a video of what happens behind the scenes of a mid-air airplane photoshoot.
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Twitter’s Photo Cropping Algorithm Draws Heat for Possible Racial Bias
Back in January of 2018, Twitter introduced an auto-cropping AI that detects the most interesting part of your image and crops the ‘preview’ photo to match. This works with everything from airplane wings to people, but as one engineer showed this weekend, it may suffer from some inherent bias. Over the weekend, cryptographic engineer Tony […]
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Op Ed: There Is No Good, Safe Social Media Community for Photography
When it comes to social media communities for photographers, Instagram is the reigning, undisputed champion today. Prior to Instagram's dominance, the photo-centric social media landscape was a very different place.
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These Reactions to a Brooklyn Beckham Photobook Will Make You Laugh
Brooklyn Beckham was never going to be the most liked photographer in the industry. As the son of multi-millionaire superstars, he got one of the biggest legs up any photographer has received. For a teenage boy, as he was at the time, his work wasn't the worst we have ever seen, but it certainly didn't warrant a photobook and gig with Burberry! A few years have passed since he burst onto the scene, but even now, people enjoy giving the 21-year-old celebrity photographer some virtual jabs on social media.
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Artist Flooded with Requests After Offering to ‘Remove Your Ex’ for $10 Per Photo
An artist on Twitter struck retouching gold recently when she offered up a simple service: she’ll edit your ex out of any photo you send her for just $10 per pic. She’s since received over 800 replies, forcing her to raise her rate… to $15.
13:53
Person Notices How Defenseless Hedgehogs Become When Sleeping, And This Butt Thread Will Make Your Day
Keeping hedgehogs as pets has become uber trendy again, reigniting a craze that began in the early '90s when they were a passing fad - before people realized how difficult it can be to care for them.
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Social Media: A Photographer’s Curse and Why I Chose To Break Free
Social media has become such an integral part of a photographer's journey. I myself had become so immersed in it that I’d spend a large portion of my day on apps like Instagram and Twitter. Building profiles, portraying the perfect life and living for likes, it absorbs so many of us, including myself.
19:13
Why I Deleted All of My Social Media and 60,000 Followers
Yesterday morning, I woke up and deleted all my social media. My Instagram, Twitter, and personal Facebook accounts (I deleted my Facebook business page a year earlier), all gone. I ghosted from the party.
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Mike Campau Explores the Anti-Social Realities of Social Media
Social media has been making a big impact of today's generation, not only for making personal connections but also for building a professional network. As such, it has been consuming a big chunk of our daily activities and demanding so much of our attention, sometimes for the wrong reasons.
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Twitter Trained an AI to Help Auto-Crop Your Photos Better
Twitter has just announced that auto-cropping of photos on the social networking service will be producing much better results thanks to a new neural network that has been trained for the task. Twitter has been a platform for photo sharing since 2011, but cropping shared photos into neat previews has been a challenge for developers. […]
22:28
Photographer Flips Off Musician After Being Called Out for Using Flash
Musician Ryan Adams got into another very public scuffle with a photographer this week. Midway through his set at the 2017 Gasparilla Music Festival, Adams, who suffers from Meniere’s disease, called out photographer Joe Sale for using flash photography and potentially putting the musician’s health at risk. Meniere’s disease is an inner ear disorder, and […]
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Why I’m Returning to Flickr Despite the Company Not Doing So Great
In January 2017, this sounds like the absolute craziest thing that any photographer could possibly do even despite my own research that shows lots of people use it as a dumping ground: but I'm truthfully returning to Flickr.
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This Drone Photo Helped Save a Man and His Dog from Their Flooded Home
This is one of the best “Internet saves the day” stories we’ve run across. When a filmmaker in North Carolina took his drone out to survey the damage done by Hurricane Matthew, he inadvertently helped rescue a man and his elderly dog who were trapped in a flooded house. You can’t make this stuff up. […]
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Clever Photographer Does Bellyflops to Add Water to His Backgrounds
If you love those photographers who will “do anything for the shot,” then you’re really going to enjoy Japanese photographer snowfairy88. When he needs to make a splash with one of his portraits, he goes all in… literally.
